Massar, Phyllis Dearborn — Presenting Stefano Della Bella: Seventeenth-Century Printmaker

New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with bw illustration affixed to front cover; Orange and white illustrated dust jacket; 141 pp.; Profusely illustrated with duotone plates and figures. "Born in Florence in 1610, Della Bella became one of the most admired printmakers of the seventeenth century -- an artist of unstinting productivity, superb style, and wide-ranging subject matter. This book, the first one in English to illustrate an account of his career with a comprehensive selection from his work, puts him on view as maker of landscapes, marines, city scenes, animal studies, mythological subjects, and fantasies. An outdoors man rather than a studio practitioner, Della Bella used his sketchbook and etching needle the way a magazine reporter today uses his camera." (dj) A vast display of the artists prints are grouped here in the following categories: Florence, Rome, Paris, On the Road, War, Landscape, Animals, By the Sea, and Death. A nice introduction to this artist. VG- in VG- price clipped dust jacket, dj has light overall wear and soiling, foxing to block edges .